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by Robert Jones
• September 3, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The journalist
who reported the rape for the newspaper Birgun, said that that
he and the newspaper received countless death threats on social media
for reporting the case.
- Turkey's
constitutional court in July annulled a criminal code provision
punishing all sexual acts involving children under the age of 15 as
"sexual abuse", giving a six-month period for parliament to
draw up a new law.
- The facts on the
ground indicate that the sexual abuse of children in Turkey is
extremely widespread and the Turkish state authorities are not acting
responsibly.
- When Syrian
babies and other children, as well as women, are being raped and
treated horribly in Turkey, and their abusers go free; when
journalists covering these abuses are threatened; when publication
bans are imposed on the crimes committed against Syrians, and when
criminals are given "good conduct abatement" by courts,
Turkey seems to be one of the last countries on earth to have the
moral right to demand visa-free travel in Europe or anywhere else.
An electronic billboard in Istanbul's Ataturk Airport
last month displayed: "Travel warning! Do you know that Sweden has the
highest rape rate worldwide?" It was posted in retaliation for a
critical tweet by Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström that read:
"Turkish decision to allow sex with children under 15 must be reversed.
Children need more protection, not less, against violence, sex abuse."
(Image source: Reuters video screenshot)
Turkey has once again threatened to tear up a controversial migrant
deal and send hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers to Europe if its citizens
are not granted visa-free travel to the European Union within months.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, demanded the EU drop
visa requirements for Turkish citizens by October.
Meanwhile, Syrian children are being raped and abused inside and
outside of refugee camps in Turkey.
Nine-Month-Old
Syrian Baby Raped; Media Blackout Imposed
A 9-month-old Syrian baby was raped in the Islahiye district of
Gaziantep on August 19. The baby is the child of a Syrian family who fled
the war in Syria, according to the newspaper Birgun. The family,
agricultural day-laborers in Gaziantep, had set up a tent in the field
where they work.
On the day of the rape, the parents left their baby with an
18-year-old man before leaving to work a field 100 meters away.
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